Health promotion is an increasingly high profile aspect of a nurse’s role – both in line with health policy and as nursing has shifted from a disease model to a health model. This textbook explores how and why health promotion works in nursing, developing a new framework for understanding the nurse’s role and promoting evidence-based practice.Drawing on empirical research and discussing existing theories of health promotion and of nursing, Stewart Piper identifies three principal a...

The perfect man for me is a charming, sexy, hot as hell lawyer who knows how to negotiate his way into my panties.#PfftwhateverBeen there.Done that.Burned the T-shirt.I didn't swear off all men after my divorce, but I sure as hell swore off anyone remotely like my ex. On the top of that list? Attorneys. Everyone knows they can't be trusted.Now that I've moved back into my childhood home in Chicago, my focus is my daughter, my mom and me. I ha...

This book was previously published as the Chris & Sydney Boxed set. It’s been enhanced and re-released to now include Betty’s Journal which was previously sold separately.Chris has spent his life dodging the police and trying to protect his son from the life he’s caught up in. He’s just returned from killing a killer and he swears it's his last act as a criminal. That is until his boss, the sexy blonde who is too uptight for her own good, ends up in a compromising position....

Vera will be a lawyer. Nothing will stop her. Not even the fact that she's from sleepy old Edenville, NorthCarolina, or the fact that her single father's small business hardly keeps them fed. A lifetime of hard work and perseverance has propelled her to the destiny she's dreamed of. An internship with Edenville's top lawyer, Michael Cooper, might not be glamorous, but staying in the city for the summer wasn't an option. Like always, she'll turn lemons into lemonade. That's easier sa...

Against all odds, Piper Anderson has managed to pick up the pieces of her life. She's holding tight to her budding romance with Officer Bobby Wright, anxious to have her moment with him. Now encircled by fiercely loyal friends, she finally feels like she's standing at the edge of a normal life. That is until reports of a brutal attack at the local college campus turn her dream of happily ever after into a nightmare. The unmistakably familiar details of the attack are an instant reminder of...

Cristian Bianco has two things against him-he's a police officer and he's a police officer in the 18th District…meaning my dad is his boss.Growing up as the Commander's daughter and having his magnifying glass focused on everything I did was more than I could handle.Now, I'm out on my own, living by my own rules. Well, mostly. The 'job' I created for myself has me in some hot water and my exit strategy isn't exactly working out how I'd hoped.Which is why when my bes...

Edenville has become home to Piper and her family. She hardly thinks about the fact that the man who raised her was a Serial Killer. Her family has grown. Her home is happy. Life is good…. until a stranger comes to town.Paisley Blackwood is on a mission - find the man who killed her Aunt decades ago. When a lead on the case brings her to Edenville she doesn’t realize just how much she’s about to unearth. Secrets Piper and her family wish would stay buried. There seems no way they c...

To Piper Anderson, fate has always been that unavoidable circumstance that befalls a person. Some people are destined to be happy, and others, like Piper, have a rougher road. Each time she tries to step off her predetermined path in search of happiness, someone or something drags her back to it. Heartbroken after Bobby allows his own past to come between them, Piper is eager to leave Edenville behind.With Jules as her companion, she heads back to New York, the place where it all b...

Michael Cooper has his life together. He is the successful lawyer all his friends turn to when they find themselves in trouble, and he and his beautiful wife just welcomed their newborn daughter to the world. In just under two years, he went from a cocky bachelor to a quintessential family man with a close-knit group of friends. Yes, Michael Cooper has his life together. Until the news that his father has died forces him to return to his hometown in Ohio.Any feelings of grief and l...

Willow has been saved from a painfully dark past and handed a bright future. By all accounts, she should be happy. But no one seems to understand that escaping evil hasn’t left her feeling free of it. The more people try to hold her close, the harder she fights to get away. Even the unconditional support from Edenville isn’t enough to help her keep her head above water.On a journey to settle scores and find answers to questions that haunt her memories, Willow hopes to mend her hear...

A Sexy FAKE RELATIONSHIP rom com standalone written by a duo of two USA Bestselling Authors.Luca Bianco is a jerk. There I said it.He thinks he’s so suave and sexy, walking around in his paramedic uniform stretched out by all his hard muscles and saving lives every day. I swear he thinks every woman in the world would kill for a chance to be with him.Men like Luca are good for one thing only—a one-night stand—not commitment. I don’t care if my frien...

No matter what people tell him, Jedda Wright is convinced he's nobody's hero. He's made his mistakes and paid dearly for them over the years. Suddenly freed from his past he's forced to find his way in a world he hardly recognizes. He's written himself off as a lost cause and pushes away any chance at love. Has he been punished enough to be worthy of his redemption or when given the chance will he make the same mistakes again?Willow has risen from the ashes of her former life and b...